Team of Scientists Counter UN IPCC: ‘Focus on stopping global warming and extreme weather is unscientific and immoral ‘

UN MUST REVERSE COURSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Focus on stopping global warming and extreme weather is unscientific and immoral 

Ottawa, Canada, November 2, 2014: “IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri was right to advocate “a global agreement to finally reverse course on climate change” when he spoke to delegates tasked with approving the IPCC Synthesis Report, released on Sunday,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). “The new direction governments should follow must be one in which the known needs of people suffering today are given priority over problems that might someday be faced by those yet to be born.”

“Yet, exactly the opposite is happening,” continued Harris. “Of the roughly one billion U.S. dollars spent every day across the world on climate finance, only 6% of it is devoted to helping people adapt to climate change in the present. The rest is wasted trying to stop improbable future climatic events. That is immoral.”

ICSC chief science advisor, Professor Bob Carter, former Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia and author of Taxing Air explained, “Science has yet to provide unambiguous evidence that problematic, or even measurable, human-caused global warming is occurring. The hypothesis of dangerous man-made climate change is based solely on computerized models that have repeatedly failed in practice in the real world.”

New Zealand-based Terry Dunleavy, ICSC founding chairman and strategic advisor remarked, “U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon often makes unjustified statements about climate change and extreme weather. However, in their still unanswered November 29, 2012 open letter to the Secretary General, 134 scientists from across the world asserted, ‘The U.K. Met Office recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 [now 18] years. During this period…carbon dioxide concentrations rose by nearly 9%…The NOAA “State of the Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now proven that the models are wrong by their creators’ own criterion.”

“Although today’s climate and extreme weather are well within the bounds of natural variability and the intensity and magnitude of extreme events is not increasing, there is, most definitely, a climate problem,” said Carter. “Natural climate change brings with it very real …

‘Polar bear biologists doing mark-recapture work in Hudson Bay may have misled the world’

Polar bear biologists doing mark-recapture work in Hudson Bay may have misled the world

http://polarbearscience.com/2014/11/02/polar-bear-biologists-doing-mark-recapture-work-in-hudson-bay-may-have-misled-the-world

What exactly are Western Hudson Bay (WHB) polar bear researchers hiding? Since 2004, research on the body condition and cub production of Western Hudson Bay (WHB) polar bears has been carried out but none of the results of these mark-recapture studies have been made public. The researchers all claim that WHB polar bears are struggling to survive because of recent sea ice changes but won’t release the 10 years worth of updated information they possess on the bears or the sea ice. Mark-recapture work entails chasing the bears down with helicopters (including females with newborn cubs), drugging them with a cocktail of sedatives that taint the meat (and perhaps the milk of nursing mothers) for months afterward, installing radio collars or ear tags, extracting a tooth for aging, drawing blood and fat samples, and before it’s all over, posing for a few up-close-and-personal photos with the tiny cubs of drugged females (see photos above and below). Nick Lunn, polar bear researcher for Environment Canada, uses the cub of a drugged female for a photo op. Derocher’s recently graduated MSc student Alysa McCall has a photo op with a WHB cub (from her student page). That’s a lot of stress to the bears and to what end? Detailed biological information about the bears that’s necessary for sound management, we are told. In order to assess the true status of a population, biologists tell us they need to compare the size of litters, the proportion of yearlings (1-2 yrs old), the rate of cub survival, and the weight of adult bears (altogether, these are the so-called “vital rates” of the population). However, I just updated a list I made in this previous post (which has the references) and you should know that by 2014, there has now been: — No published data available for size of WHB litters or proportion of independent yearlings since 1998 (16 yrs ago). — No data on cub survival in WHB since 1992 (22 yrs ago). — No data published on weight of lone WHB females since 2004 (10 yrs ago) — No data published on weight of adult WHB males and females with cubs since 1998 (16 years ago) There has also been no sea ice data published for Hudson Bay since 2004 (10 yrs ago) using the old method of …